Literature History Quotes

Literature History Quote of the day

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.